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I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.

Edward Albee

Progress is a set of assumptions.
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Assumption One Liner Progress
In a democracy you cannot stop public access to that art that will most misinform the people. You cannot stop people from being misinformed. But what you can do is to educate the people to the point that they will throw the rascals out.
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Access Democracy Information People Point Public Stop Yourself
Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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Bed Music Sports
There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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Death Life Poet Writing
Audiences and, to a large extent, critics who want less from theater than it is possible for it to give. If everybody’s encouraged to want less, you’ll end up with less.
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Audience Criticism Encouragement End Theatre Yourself
What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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Education Myself Preference Taste
Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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Best Goodness Hope Intention
Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
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Correct Distance Necessary Order Time Way
Being different is interesting; there’s nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution; and if the differences are too extreme well, then, reality tends to fade away.
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Different Fade Greatness Interesting Natural Production Reality
I think I was probably wondering, having looked at human beings for a long time, wondering if evolution ever took place. And I still have my doubts.
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Doubt Evolution Human Myself Place Thinking Time Wonder
If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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Alive Life Wound Yourself
The most profound indication of social malignancy no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
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Humor Joke Social
Your source material is the people you know, not those you don’t know, but every character is an extension of the author’s own personality.
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Author Character Extension Material People Personality Source Yourself
What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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Fantasy Involvement People Reality Theatre
Art has an obligation to offend.
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Art Obligation Offend One Liner
The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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Goodness Kill Myself Review Time

I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.

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